Money Making Millennials: Entrepreneurs | Start Ups | Leaders of the Future

05 What Is App Reskinning & How To Do It w/ Benny Hsu

07.03.2014 - By Jonah Wilson: Teen Entrepreneur, Blogger, App Developer and Money Making CoPlay

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What's Discussed in This Episode:

How Benny's App, Photo 365, was featured by Apple

How long Benny waited until he released another app on the App Store

How Benny has released more than 20 apps on the App Store

What App Reskinning Is

Cost involved with App Reskinning

Benny quitting his job in 2013

Benny's determination to continue pushing forward despite only making .64 cents on some days

How sales started slow but eventually continued to grow to the tune of $3,000 in sales from Benny's games alone in October of 2013

The tipping point of making $12,000 in combined sales of games and apps in December 2013

Flappy Birds and the explosion of App Reskins

How App Reskinning Works

Understanding how to replace images, advertising, etc. in the app source file via Xcode

Benny shares how he made use of Google and YouTube to find answers to development questions he had

The best places to purchase app reskin source code

What are the best practices to optimize your app before submitting to the App Store Finally we discuss the Candy Trademark Saga and how Benny became a trademark hero

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Where Benny purchases his royalty free graphics: GraphicRiver

Best place to purchase App Reskinning source code:

BlueCloudSolutions,

Chocolate Lab Apps,

ChupaMobile

Benny discussing his app, All Candy Casino Slots, on Fox Business.

More About Benny Hsu

Benny Hsu is an entrepreneur, a blogger, and iPhone app developer. He released his first app on the App Store in August of 2011 called, Photo 365, and in the first month he was featured as App of the Week by Apple and earned $30,000 in just 30 days. Since then, he’s launched more than 20 apps on the App Store.

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